This movie isn't what you may be expecting

Rating: 5/10 (14 July 2003)

The description for this movie says that it is about survivors of an epidemic banding together. That, combined with a bad assumption that UK flicks are more intelligent than US films, led me to think that this movie would be interesting.
No. It is a zombie horror flick where you are constantly bracing for what is going to jump in from around the corner and try to kill you. The epidemic which is the premise of the movie is a contrivance: the infected person will bite you or projectile-vomit blood onto you, and then you are infected with 100% reliability within 10 to 20 seconds. Those who are infected live for the sole purpose of infecting those who are not yet infected. They don't use weapons or tools, or even speak. They're zombies, remember?
But their eyes are red and they run around waving their arms, drenched in blood, and issuing blood curdling screams that could not possibly come from a human voice. Yup, zombies.
There is an attempt to make for cleverness by having the main character experience rage ("rage" is the name of the epidemic) in a parallel to the rage of the infected zombies, but the whole premise of the disease and the army barracks is so contrived that it was hard to appreciate the effort. In the end, this was nearly two hours of intense fear while my brain is going "this is dumb". At least the normal horror movies have a sense of humor about themselves...
If you want an end-of-the-world movie with zombies that has some scares, but isn't quite as intense as 28 Days Later (and it was very intense), and has a sense of humor about itself, rent Night of the Comet. It's a B-grade scifi/horror flick, but it knows that it is B-grade and revels in it. When Night of the Comet ends you've had a good time. When 28 Days Later ended, it took me 30 minutes to recover and I'd wished I hadn't seen it in the first place.